Killing a Corvette

Tom Kirkham · #1 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 05:48 PM

Don't watch if you have a week stomach.

This is soo wrong.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegr.../#commentsmore

Jamo · #2 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 05:56 PM

Yup...L98s were great for autocrossing.

kobrabytes · #3 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 06:22 PM

Wasn't there another thread where someone told me that nothing classic would ever end up in this program?

rokndad · #4 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 06:58 PM

Heard there was also some dude in SoCal who turned in a Maserrati of some sort and they killed it as well. This is so wrong. How'd these people get so far out in front of reason? And they still keep their "phoney baloney jobs", as Mel Brooks has said.

ZOERA-SC7XX · #5 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 07:18 PM

That's sick. Anyone who would destroy a Corvette like that should be made to drink that stuff. No one in their right mind (at least a car guy) would participate in such a circus.

fasterpatrick · #6 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 07:41 PM

Take one flogged to death Vette with a motor ready to blow and watch me. I've seen what the wrong people to own these cars can do to them with out the juice. If the car was beat to death by some punk, the rest of the parts are worth more than the car as a whole.
Patrick

rustyBob · #7 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 08:06 PM

what are those fumes doing to the enviroment? that guy was backing away in a hurry when they came towards him.........and those cars could be donated to a cherity or something instead of destroyed...........

RON N BKFLD · #8 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 08:09 PM

I swear I could smell the vette during it's last gasps.......I just bought a 1978 pace car with L82 & 4 speed, 39,000 original miles. I don't need their stinkin trade in sh*t...Ron

Aussie Mike · #9 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 10:19 PM

What is the point of destroying these motors? This is plain insanity. Taking these old cars off the road because they are supposedly bad for the environment is just stupid especially if they are disposing of them in this way.

The amount of energy and resources that goes into building a new car and the pollution and environmental impact is way more than the impact of keeping an old car running.

All those dumb asses driving round in their prius's thinking they are doing their part for the environment are driving an ecological disaster.

I think there needs to be more focus on refurbishment than replacement. How about an industry based on putting modern clean green engines into old cars.

With the industrialists pushing political policy and their marketing and spin people feeding us a bunch of crap about new cars being good for the environment what hope do we have.

Silverback51 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-21-2009, 10:45 PM

Your tax dollars at work.

Archrms · #11 (**permalink**) 08-22-2009, 02:10 PM

You can only hope the fumes those guys were breathing will give them a slower more painful death than the Corvette had.

Dan40 · #12 (**permalink**) 08-22-2009, 02:16 PM

Can you say IMPEACHMENT????????

trularin · #13 (**permalink**) 08-22-2009, 03:37 PM

I used to cringe to watch a early Mustang get used in a movie and get destroyed.

I thought, "well there is one less Mustang."

But, after a while, you realize you can not help stupid. Stupid is as stupid does.

fsstnotch · #14 (**permalink**) 08-22-2009, 10:10 PM

I don't know why all the hate to the tech that had to murder the vette... it was after all his Job to do. If a lynch mob should be formed on anybody it should be the person who traded it and the government for their stupidity in teh whole damn program!

bomelia · #15 (**permalink**) 08-22-2009, 11:00 PM

Thank goodness this **** is over in one more day.

cobra de capell · #16 (**permalink**) 08-23-2009, 10:01 AM

So, the Vette was not worth more than $3.5-$4.5 thousand?

A saw a row of clunkers on TV - a lot of people would have liked to have practically any one of those cars - especially single moms.

Dan40 · #17 (**permalink**) 08-23-2009, 06:19 PM

This is NOT a prediction.

But I would not be at all surprised is 10 years and more from now that the used car market, the parts pipeline, and even new car sales are still feeling ill effects from this knee jerk program. And the poorest people will bear the brunt of still another set of 'unintended consequences' foisted on the public by politicians of either party.

rustyBob · #18 (**permalink**) 08-23-2009, 09:35 PM

there are people out there that for whatever reason cant afford to update or replace there older vehicles and this would be the perfect opportunity for the government to step up and GIVE them a better more fuel effecient vehicle for them improve there lives and take those old clunkers off the road.

fsstnotch · #19 (**permalink**) 08-23-2009, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rustyBob

there are people out there that for whatever reason cant afford to update or replace there older vehicles and this would be the perfect opportunity for the government to step up and GIVE them a better more fuel effecient vehicle for them improve there lives and take those old clunkers off the road.

This is EXACTLY my arguement on the program. If the TRUE goal was to remove "clunkers" and boost the economy a little. You've boosted slightly by getting people to buy new cars. But how many "clunkers" were really taken off the roads? Wouldn't it have been a better decision to allow poeple who can't afford a new car to trade their TRUE clunker in on one of htese not so bad cars? And then, why kill the motors? Blacklist the VIN and sell the cars to junk yards who can part them out.

My feelings on this program are that it has shown a FALSE boost in economy. As of today the program is over, and I will put money on the fact that dealerships are going to struggle the rest of the year to sell cars. Everyone who might have been interested already got one!

trularin · #20 (**permalink**) 08-24-2009, 08:20 AM

Estimate: 2 billion divided by 4500.